Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
Waiting for Baby As we count down the days until Baby Girl’s arrival, I have been blessed with a prayer shower to calm my fears and time to put the finishing touches on her Classic Pooh nursery. Baby Girl’s official “due date” is only 10 days away, and I have been experiencing fairly steady Braxton […]
Dear Mom, If life had gone the way I’d planned, I wouldn’t know much about Alzheimer’s disease. I would probably be organizing a party for your 60th birthday at Pappadeaux or Chuy’s instead of selling shirts and bracelets to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association in your memory. I would probably be naive and foolish, […]
I’ve been struggling to write for the last couple of months but felt like I needed to publish something in commemoration of Mother’s Day. I could blame my hiatus from blogging on being busy with motherhood and working part-time again, but that’s not really the reason. My blog started a few years ago as […]
It means the world to me that my mother knew my husband before it was too late. I remember telling my mother about my feelings for my future husband, heartbroken about his feelings for someone else at the time, during my freshman year of college. That conversation always make me think of one of my […]